OK, this is it…

Ready or not I am stoked to unveil Delivr.

Delivr is a super simple service to create your own custom digital postcards. Obviously it is not the only site in the world to do this, but Delivr is unique in a few ways:

• It is powered by the Flickr API, so the number of images available is HUGE and growing daily...how many other ecard sites have a library of 600,000+ images, with 1000's more added every day? This might just make Delivr the biggest ecard site online.
• All images are licensed under the Creative Commons, and all images are fully attributed, both in preview and in the sent postcard (try it). Delivr does not use images with a NoDerivs license.
• The postcards you can create with Delivr are much more classy than your average ecard...no annoying flash animation or tinny muzak.
• You can even use your own images to create postcards just by searching on your tags.

I hope you like it...feedback and questions welcome.

BTW, for those of you interested in how it works I can add that we use the getRecent interestingness API to populate the index page with all the recent images and this is cached for 30 mins 24hrs, while the Search API is used for user defined queries and these results are cached for 24 hours also so we shouldn't be too hard on the API.

UPDATE: An anonymous commenter just asked what assurances there are that Delivr isn't just an email address harvesting program. Unfortunately my spam killer plugin ate the comment before I could approve it (unintended irony). But to answer the question...no it doesn't store email addresses at all. Once you've sent a postcard that's it. There really isn't anything I would say or do to prove that the system wasn't harvesting email addresses, except to point out that I would have to be the dumbest spammer alive to provide links back to my own personal blog, on which you can easily find information which wouldn't make it hard to track me down. And I while Delivr is NOT affiliated with Flickr, they do link to the site from their Services page so I guess they feel confortable enough that it is not some front to a spamming operation. That's all.

UPDATE: Just got asked a question which prompted me to update this post. Delivr now uses the interestingness API from Flickr, which I think you'll agree provides a much more interesting range of images to choose from.